{"id":1354,"date":"2023-03-16T20:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:26:40","slug":"a-tuesday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/a-tuesday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tuesday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/un_mardi_apres_midi-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/un_mardi_apres_midi-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/un_mardi_apres_midi-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/un_mardi_apres_midi-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/un_mardi_apres_midi-900x668.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/un_mardi_apres_midi-1280x950.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Inspired by Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) \u2013 Channel in Holland with houses and mills (1860\/01\/28) \u2013 Black stone \/ Watercolour \u2013 7,3 x 10,4 inch <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophie is at home. She feels good. She drinks tea, she reads a book that she particularly likes, the latest M\u00e9lissa Da Costa <em>Women from the End of the World<\/em>, comfortably sitting on her sofa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>And then, a\nnotification arrives on her cell phone. Damn, she had forgotten to\nput on silent. At first she resists. Eventually, she peeks out to\nfind out who the intruder is who dares to disturb her cosy moment!\nOhhhh, it&#8217;s her best friend Nathan. He suggests a walk in a place\nthat she particularly likes, near the mills, where old buildings hold\ntogether as if by magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophie is not\ntempted. She closes her phone immediately and returns to her reading.\nA few minutes later, probably, her phone rings. Unable to\nconcentrate. She is angry. But when she finds out who&#8217;s calling her,\nshe instantly softens. She answers and\u2026 of course accepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She dresses quickly\nwith jeans, a t-shirt, a sweater, just in case, and here she is in\nher car to reach the meeting place, in the countryside, in the middle\nof the fields. Too bad, she forgot her boots. She just has to hope\nthat there won&#8217;t be too much mud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathan is already\nthere. She suspects him of contacting her when he was already there!\nHe welcomes her warmly and the walk can begin. The weather is ideal.\nIt is neither too hot nor too cold. The windmills are magnificent.\nThey&#8217;ve been standing all this time. They don&#8217;t work anymore but it\nwouldn&#8217;t take much for them to be functional. And these houses too,\nthey are all so cute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophie and Nathan\ntake the opportunity to tell each other stories. They change maps.\nThey imagine how their life might have been in the last century. They\nare a couple for the occasion, they even have a child, a little girl\nthey adore. Sophie doesn\u2019t work, she takes care of her family and\nher home. As for him, he is a miller, quite naturally. He sees to the\nsmooth running of his favorite mill. They are fully happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the 10 kilometer\nride comes to an end, Sophie feels very moved. She truly believed in\nthis story, she felt good about it. When leaving in the parking lot,\nshe falls into his arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) \u2013 Channel in Holland with houses and mills (1860\/01\/28) \u2013 Black stone \/ Watercolour \u2013 7,3 x 10,4 inch Sophie is at home. She feels good. She drinks tea, she reads a book that she particularly likes, the latest M\u00e9lissa Da Costa Women from the End of the World, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}